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inactive
inactive is a 8-letter English word with 13 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive.
- 2adjective
Not disposed to action or effort; not diligent or industrious; not busy; idle; as, an inactive officer.
- 3adjective
Not active; inert; esp., not exhibiting any action or activity on polarized light; optically neutral; -- said of isomeric forms of certain substances, in distinction from other forms which are optically active; as, racemic acid is an inactive tartaric acid.
- 4adjective
not active physically or mentally
"illness forced him to live an inactive life"
"dreamy and inactive by nature"
- 5adjective
not engaged in full-time work
"inactive reserve"
"an inactive member"
- 6adjective
lacking activity; lying idle or unused
"an inactive mine"
"inactive accounts"
- 7adjective
(pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly
- 8adjective
lacking in energy or will- George Meredith
"Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"
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- 9adjective
(of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct
"a dormant volcano"
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- 10adjective
not exerting influence or change
- 11adjective
not in physical motion
"the inertia of an object at rest"
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- 12adjective
(military) not involved in military operations
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- 13adjective
(chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert
"desired amounts of inactive chlorine"
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